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- From: ojvind@chagall.cns.caltech.edu (Ojvind Bernander)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,misc.invest
- Subject: Stock price spread
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 22:07:34 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- Various services list asking price, bidding price, and last trade.
- My question is: is there always a trade when ask and bid coincide?
- If the last trade is, e.g., 7 1/2, does that mean that the buyer
- paid 7 1/2 and the seller got 7 1/2, or is does the specialist
- skim off an 1/8 so that the seller only got 7 3/8? Help me someone.
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- -- Ojvind (ojvind@cns.caltech.edu)
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